Updating uefi-edk2-bhyve

[Marcelo Araujo]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 4:14 PM Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net wrote:

> > On 3/29/19 9:29 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > >
> > > That, iirc, would be the  SMBIOS version of ed2k, which yes should
> > > be updated if infact the newer ed2k has a new SBIOS implementation,
> > > if it is still 1.00 implementaton then this needs to be left
> > > alone.
> >
> >
> > Under OVMF "smbiosview -t 0" shows:
>
> I do not know what the above is, could you elaborate for me?
> What is OVMF and what is its relation to bhyve?
>

Mind blowing!!!!  Hahahaha

>
> >
> > Vendor: EFI Development Kit II / OVMF
> >
> > BiosVersion: 0.0.0
> >
> > BiosReleaseDate: 02/06/2015
> >
> >
> > Whereas, we have:
> >
> >
> > Vendor: BHYVE
> >
> > BiosVersion: 1.00
> >
> > BiosReleaseDate: 03/14/2014
>
> I have to assume this is with ed2k loaded, but I do not
> know you are showing me the SMBIOS string value or some
> other bios version value.  THere are compliance levels
> associated with SMBIOS.
>
> The SMBIOS versions must match what it is that is implemented,
> and infact I have pending code in review that specifically
> implements features as SMBIOS version 1.0, though I would
> rather be implementing this in the newer SMBIOS spec (at least
> 2. something and preferable 3.2, but as discsussed in email
> with jgb that would require a complete audit and upgrade of
> our current code to be at that spec level, a none trivial,
> but worthwhile effort I defered for later.
>
> --
> Rod Grimes
> rgrimes at freebsd.org
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